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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 29, 2024

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  3. Programming Leftovers
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  4. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and mintCast
    a pair of new episodes
  5. Open Hardware: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
    Devices and such
  6. Security Leftovers
    patches, breaches, and more
  7. Software: Stellarium, Istio, Document Freedom Day
    Some FOSS news
  8. today's howtos
    last batch for today
  9. KDE: Releases of KTextAddons and Haruna
    some KDE software
  10. KEcoLab in SoK24: Incorporating Energy-Consumption Measurements In The CI/CD Pipeline
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  11. RIP, Simon Riggs (PostgreSQL)
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  12. LibreOffice 24.2.2 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 70 Bug Fixes
    The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.2.2 as the second point release to the latest LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series fixing more than 70 bugs.
  13. Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
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  14. Free Software, WWW, and Opennwashing
    Some FOSS leftovers
  15. Programming and Open Hardware Leftovers
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  16. Nix, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and More
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  17. Red Hat Leftovers
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  18. Canonical/Ubuntu Self-Promotion and Announcements
    a chain of puff pieces
  19. Android Leftovers
    Delete these free VPN apps from your Android phone before they turn you into a cybercriminal!
  20. Games: 4D Golf, Lost For Swords, and More
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  21. BeagleY-AI: Powering Open Source Innovation with the Texas Instruments AM67A
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  22. "Powering On" Explained
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  23. Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of Apple's GPU, to keynote LibrePlanet
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  24. Best Free and Open Source Matrix Clients and Linux Graph Databases
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  25. Kdenlive 24.02.1 released
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  26. today's howtos
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  27. Today in Techrights
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  28. today's leftovers
    very GNU/Linux focused
  29. Programming Leftovers
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  30. Istio, SQLite Viewer, and More Software
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  31. Security Leftovers
    Linux and more
  32. Linux-capable RISC-V soft cores for Achronix FPGAs
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    817 /n/2024/03/26/Canonical_Extends_LTS_Support_to_12_Years.shtml
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